Indexes typically improve performance, however if all the columns required by a query are not on the index, some data is obtained from the underlying table via a key lookup. When a ‘large’ amount of ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...